SPORTS
Imaginary Man On First!
Dennis and I against the rest
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We didn’t have a proper baseball field. Nor were we playing baseball; it was softball, with its larger and softer ball, heavier as well, hard for anyone to hit very far, never mind scrawny sixth graders in 1958.
No, our field was just a grass field, sunk lower behind the paved playground at the Cottage Street…